How to Use lenient in a Sentence

lenient

adjective

• Many people felt that the punishment was too lenient.
• Her lawyers hope that her plea will make the court more lenient.
  — New York Times, 27 July 2022
• The new bill, which takes effect May 1, will make Utah one of the most lenient states toward unlicensed child care.
  — Nicole Santa Cruz, ProPublica, 19 Mar. 2024
• One of the people running for Chief Justice wanted to be more lenient.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 19 Oct. 2022
• Foglesong also noted that the old system may have been too lenient.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 9 May 2023
• Other parents have told Payne that the teachers are not lenient with students who ask to go to the bathroom.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2022
• Wong, Mo and Tai are among those who pleaded guilty, hoping for a more lenient sentence.
  — Brittyn Clennett, ABC News, 6 Feb. 2023
• Those in the sport are split about the resulting fine and punishment, with Mercedes landing on the side of too lenient.
  — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 24 Dec. 2022
• Was the first adjudicator wrong, or was the judge too lenient?
  — Tom Margenau, Dallas News, 29 Jan. 2023
• Both are factors that could prompt the judge to be lenient in sentencing, Cohen said.
  — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 18 Nov. 2022
• Balwani was convicted on all 12 felony counts, and his lawyers sought a far more lenient sentence of just four to 10 months in prison.
  — Michael Liedtke, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Dec. 2022
• On the nation’s asylum laws, 33% of Latinos described them as too lenient, compared with 39% of whites.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2024
• Many are sold and owned by people younger than 18, who generally face more lenient treatment in the courts.
  — Glenn Thrush, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2023
• Gerwig was pretty lenient in her idea of what a Ken presented as in her movie; there were no hard and fast rules about what a Ken had to look like.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 12 July 2023
• But the existence of a plea deal has sparked outrage among conservatives, who say the charges are too lenient.
  — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
• Daniels chose a sentence on the lenient end of guidelines that, according to prosecutors, called for Doud to get 30 years to life in prison.
  — Bob Van Voris, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2023
• Faced with criticism that the state was too lenient toward shoplifters, Gov. Gavin Newsom and Atty.
  — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• The main cause of a child being spoiled is when a parent is too lenient or what’s called permissive parenting.
  — Denise Schipani, Parents, 3 Nov. 2023
• While some places may have more lenient views towards its use, others might view it as taboo or even offensive.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2023
• The Army has historically been more lenient with waivers than the other services.
  — Ernesto Londoño, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2023
• So McQueen is looking at Jamaica as a location for the first extended trips due to the country’s lenient drug laws.
  — Justin Higginbottom, The New Republic, 3 Jan. 2023
• Copeland also cited McMichael’s previous service in the Coast Guard as a reason for a more lenient sentence.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 8 Aug. 2022
• When the team goal is in sight, players sometimes urge Penn to be lenient on the more objective categories like out-of-area rebounding or 50-50 balls.
  — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2023
• Some relatives of Wiese-Mack had complained that the Indonesian sentence was far too lenient.
  — Michael Tarm, ajc, 16 June 2023
• This fact was one of the reasons defense attorneys implored the judge to take the more lenient route, as he was denied youthful offender status at the time.
  — Ashley Morrison The Anniston Star, al, 24 Aug. 2022
• Anonymous shell firms have also been an issue in the U.S., where lenient rules allowed for similar loopholes to those seen in the U.K. that abetted the movement of dirty money.
  — Chloe Taylor, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2022
• In his own pre-sentencing memos, Avenatti asked Judge Selna for a much more lenient six-year term.
  — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2022
• As the rich continue to win out both in terms of salary and relatively lenient tax breaks, opinion on our billionaires has started to sour.
  — Bychloe Berger, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2023
• Now, three years later, customers have grown accustomed to those more lenient policies.
  — Heather Hoover-Salomon, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2023
• The Russian government is not likely to be at all lenient in dealing with Americans.
  — Jonathan Abrams, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024